Today, two sections of Guiteau’s spleen, parts of his skeleton—including his ribs, left hand, and left foot—and a glass jar containing the pieces of his brain, which were eventually returned to Washington, remain in the Army Medical Museum, now known as the National Museum of Health and Medicine. These specimens are kept in a large metal cabinet with long, deep drawers. The drawer just below Guiteau’s holds the vertebrae of another presidential assassin—John Wilkes Booth—as well as a six-inch section of Garfield’s spine, which had served as an exhibit at Guiteau’s trial. A red, plastic rod
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